[Qt-interest] How translate constants

[Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch]

Andre Somers wrote on Monday, December 14, 2009 11:25 AM:

>> ... But how can I translate my constants which are
>> initialized before loading translator?
>> 
> Isn't the point of a constant that it is... eh... constant?

Yes - and no. For example you want the following "constant" string to be immutable:

const char *CONSTANT_ENGLISH_STRING = "Things will never change (unless Pi does)!";

But off course you still want it to be displayed in a different language, so you need to translate the original string (which remains still unchanged, off course!). And you mark such strings with the beforementioned Q_TR_NOOP (within a given class "context") or QT_TRANSLATE_NOOP (where you can explicitly specify the "context").

Note that translation itself does /not/ change the original string ;)

See e.g. http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/qtglobal.html#QT_TRANSLATE_NOOP


Cheers, Oliver
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Oliver Knoll
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